Improvement in shoes



' front and back stays attached to a quarter of UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAKOB zWIoKER, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,753, dated July 11,1876; application filed May 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JAKoB ZWIOKER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoes, of which the following is a specification: I

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved shoe, and Figs. 2 and 3 are, respectively, top views of the vamp and quarter.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to such improvements in boots and shoes that they can be made in a neat and elegant manner without seams;

and the invention consists of a shoe 'or gaiter made of a vamp of one continuous piece, with pine piece, provided with a front extension or In the drawing, A represents the vamp, A the quarters, and B the foxing, which form together the upper for my improved shoes and gaiters. The vamp A is cut out of one continuous piece of leather, with quarters A,

a central round or oval recess, a, and longitudinal stays I), that are out to run sidewise of each other as near as possible, but slightly out of the direction of the longitudinal axis. The stays b are applied to the front ahd rear parts of the foxing by being properly worked or orimped to assume the exact positions at the front and back part thereof. The foxing B is also cut of one continuous piece ofleather, with an extension, B, to form the button-flap of the shoe or gaiter, as shown in Fig. 3. The extension or button flap B admits the application of this style of shoes to gaiters, and shoes of all kinds, without the annoying and hurting side or back seams, furnishing a nicely fitting and elegantshoe.

I am aware that ornamental stays are not new; but

What I claim is- A button shoe or gaiter, constructed with vamp, quarters, and stays in one piece, and

with a one/piece foxing, provided with button-flap B, as shown and described.

JAKOB ZWI'OKER. Witnesses:

PAUL GOEP'EL, T. B. MOSHER. 

